Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 The whole world has to answer right now, 'cause I'll tell you, once again: Jere's bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Carrie, are you okay? So, Carrie are you okay? Are you okay, Carrie? You've been hit by. You've been hit by, a Smooth Composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 I'm back! Ciao Turks! Of course I listened some John Williams during my vacations, mostly playlists. And this soundtrack on the place while coming back: Michael Giacchino - Up Travel Playlist All the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 3 minutes ago, Godzilla said: Carrie, are you okay? So, Carrie are you okay? Are you okay, Carrie? You've been hit by. You've been hit by, a Smooth Composer. "OK, I want everyone to clear the studio, right now!" Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,973 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Listening to the 1998 Arista album as well as Charles Gerhardt's recording of the long suite. This score, or at least some really chunks of it, might be John Williams' single greatest achievement - as a contribution to the film as well as pure music. Karol Marian Schedenig and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 The Gerhardt suite is still my go-to when I want to listen to Close Encounters. Brilliant arrangement and performance. That specific arrangement has never been recorded elsewhere, right?. There seems to be so many different concert arrangements. The Gerhardt is different from the Mehta is different from the Pops in Space is different from the Spielberg/Williams Collaboration versions. Never really sat down and mapped out the specific differences. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,973 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Yeah, I think it is the only recording of this. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 I collected some of the best re-recordings available on Spotify. It makes a great playlist! A tribute to John Williams: Six decades of music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Been checking out Danny Elfman's Alice music. That main theme IS amazing. It really, truly is. But I'll confess...I think Dan's consistently wonderful at main themes. But when those themes aren't on and it's just the rest of the score, my ears tend to lose interest pretty quickly. I don't know what it is. His action music especially just doesn't get my heart pumping. The music just meanders around until it's time to express a main theme again. That is to say, I love the main themes to Mars Attacks, Beetlejuice, certain cues in Edward Scissorhands ("Ice Dance" and "Grand Finale" mainly), Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, etc. But after the main/opening themes, I don't remember a note of what follows. If anything, I tend to find the "Efman ripoff" works from other composers to be more captivating (like James Newton Howard's fantasy works). As an aside though, I want to give Black Beauty a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 40 minutes ago, Bespin said: I collected some of the best re-recordings available on Spotify. It makes a great playlist! A tribute to John Williams: Six decades of music Nothing from IMAGES? Disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 5 minutes ago, Richard said: Nothing from IMAGES? Disappointed. Richard, strangely... I repeat... strangely... nobody (that I'm aware of) ever re-recorded a track from it... since 40 years. Taikomochi and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Hee, hee. Give me a piano, and I'll do it. 45 years, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Jerry Goldsmith's The Swarm Joel McNeely's Shadows of the Empire -Imperial City and Destruction of Xizor's Palace are favourites, the latter for the frantic Imperial theme towards the end and the former for conjuring an image of Coruscant. Otherwise been a while and largely after knackering my Revenge of the Sith tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Titanic Batman Returns Independence Day Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith The Lost World: Jurassic Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Stanley & Iris (Deluxe Edition) by John Williams: A lovely score to listen to on your way to work on a sunny spring morning. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,973 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 13 hours ago, Strangways said: Jerry Goldsmith's The Swarm Joel McNeely's Shadows of the Empire -Imperial City and Destruction of Xizor's Palace are favourites, the latter for the frantic Imperial theme towards the end and the former for conjuring an image of Coruscant. Otherwise been a while and largely after knackering my Revenge of the Sith tracks. I enjoy this disc very much. But it feels nothing like Star Wars. Not sure whether that is a good thing or not. Karol Sir Hilary Bray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 I don't think THE SWARM is meant to feel like STAR WARS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 On 2/5/2017 at 4:56 PM, crocodile said: Michael Collins by Elliot Goldenthal. Yummy. Karol I wants this complete Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 I want all Goldenthal scores complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 I should listen to more Goldenthal. Collins feels particularly short though. Funny because the film feels so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 X-Men 3 - John Powel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Total Recall (Quartet) by Jerry Goldsmith: This is some kickass action music! Jaws 2 (Intrada) by John Williams: Another one of those great sequel scores that retains some of the original's charm but the composer happily goes to a new direction with the music rather than doing a retread of the first one. Some terrific pages in this one Johnny angel baby! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Comedy! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Titanic Far and Away I don't hear any similarity whatsoever between these two scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Enya > Celine Dion. Or Enya < Ce-... ..Damn it, I always get those symbols confused. Either way, I like Far and Away inherently because there's an Enya song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 James Horner - The Land Before Time Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 If I had to live in a world where every Horner score was being thrown into a fiery pit and I could only rescue one from destruction, it'd be Land Before Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Fantastic dynamic range on that CD. Any remaster and re-release would be fucked up by a puhdoosah who wants it louder and brighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Superman by John Williams: It has been some time since I listened to this. Still magnificent. Bespin and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 2 hours ago, Selina Kyle said: Titanic Far and Away I don't hear any similarity whatsoever between these two scores. It's Enya's bloody Book of Days which sounds like the obvious temp-track for the setting sail scenes in Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 The Sons of Katie Elder - Elmer Bernstein A fun, well-done but inessential score for a fun but inessential latter-day John Wayne film. Bernstein is always excellent in his Western mode, although the main theme could also have been called "Variations on Magnificent Seven." 7 hours ago, kaseykockroach said: If I had to live in a world where every Horner score was being thrown into a fiery pit and I could only rescue one from destruction, it'd be Land Before Time. An American Tail is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 While I prepare a C&C playlist combining tracks from the 96 SE and 2002 20th album, I listen to the audio of this: E.T. (John Williams performs the "E.T." score live with the film at the Shrine Auditorium 2002 Premiere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 8 hours ago, kaseykockroach said: If I had to live in a world where every Horner score was being thrown into a fiery pit and I could only rescue one from destruction, it'd be Land Before Time. You've obviously never heard BRAINSTORM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Snow Falling on Cedars by James Newton Howard: Howard's lyrical atmospheric and at times slightly Japanese tinged music creates truly a singular dream-like moodscape without often rising above a gentle orchestral whisper. Sparingly used choral voices (apart from the dramatic elegy of The Evacuation and the soaring paean of Tarawa), solo cello, shakuhachi, Japanese drums and exotic metallic percussion sounds (later used by Howard with distinction for Atlantis and The Last Airbender) all contribute to a mesmerizing fragile atmosphere that alternates between completely ambient and quiet heart tugging melodicism with several thematic ideas wafting in and out of the fabric of the score subtly but continually and effectively. Truly one of JNH's finest. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 2 hours ago, Disco Stu said: The Sons of Katie Elder - Elmer Bernstein A fun, well-done but inessential score for a fun but inessential latter-day John Wayne film. Bernstein is always excellent in his Western mode, although the main theme could also have been called "Variations on Magnificent Seven." An American Tail is better. I can tell we've got an awful lot in common, even our tastes in music are as different can be! We don't even have to try to see things eye to eye, it just comes to us naturally! Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, kaseykockroach said: I can tell we've got an awful lot in common, even our tastes in music are as different can be! We don't even have to try to see things eye to eye, it just comes to us naturally! Dom DeLuise's greatest performance! Well, that and Twelve Chairs. Koray Savas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 And every Mel Brooks movie he was in! Koray Savas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Just now, nightscape94 said: And every Mel Brooks movie he was in! Of which Twelve Chairs is the best! It really is the most underrated/underseen Brooks film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 So much so that I completely forgot it was a Brooks movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,973 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Listening to this clip makes me actually want to check this disc out: Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I was hoping that would be an orchestral version of the Michael Jackson song. crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 28 minutes ago, Godzilla said: I was hoping that would be an orchestral version of the Michael Jackson song. I have a present for you: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Whoa.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 On 12/05/2017 at 9:21 AM, Bespin said: While I prepare a C&C playlist combining tracks from the 96 SE and 2002 20th album, I listen to the audio of this: E.T. (John Williams performs the "E.T." score live with the film at the Shrine Auditorium 2002 Premiere) I cried and I laughted at the right places, just listening to the audio. E.T. and me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 It's ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 RADIO 3's THE SOUND OF CINEMA. It ranges from the sublime (David Shire's lonely, desolate THE CONVERSATION), to inane, composition-by-numbers (Horner's utterly pedestrian C+PD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Jupiter Ascending by Mikey Giakeeno The Lost World: Jurassic Park by Johnny Billy. Endurance by John Powell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Sci-Fi adventure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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